The inside story of Biden’s foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America’s global
influence in the aftermath of Trump When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency he
brought with him a team of all-star talent perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy
experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America’s damaged reputation abroad and
decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have been
greater. Around the world adversaries were consolidating power allies were drifting away
wars were raging and climate change was accelerating all while Russia was disrupting
democracies and China was seeking to replace the U.S. as the world’s preeminent power. Now for
the first time since World War II the United States risked falling from its unrivaled
position. If Biden and his team failed it would likely mark the end of an American era and the
rise of a fractured and autocratic world order. In The Internationalists acclaimed
national security reporter Alexander Ward takes us behind the scenes to reveal the struggle to
enact a coherent and effective set of policies in a time of global crisis. Against the failure
of Afghanistan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Biden’s all-star team-of-rivals must band
together against incredible odds. Their successes and their failures will decide not just
Biden’s presidency. They will decide the very course of America’s global future. As The Best
and The Brightest chronicled the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy Administration and The Rise
of The Vulcans detailed the inner workings of George Bush's war machine The Internationalists
takes readers behind the scenes as Joe Biden and his cabinet embark on some of the most
ambitious foreign policy initiatives of any president since Richard M. Nixon. Thanks to
rigorous reporting and sources in the rooms where it happened Ward delivers the first draft of
history the first definitive unvarnished account of the Biden Doctrine from the Fall of
Kabul to the Rise of Kiev.
